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…created for GitHub Security Advisories. These commits match the advisories published 3 weeks ago: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/security

comment by grono · 2026-10-21 · in MicroG: Free-libre re-implementation of Google's proprietary Android user space

…server requires SafetyNet requests to be signed using the proprietary DroidGuard system. [0]: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/blob/32bc8954ff872d0e1a05d... [1]: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/blob/32bc8954ff872d0e1a05d...

comment by mzajc · 2026-10-20 · in MicroG: Free-libre re-implementation of Google's proprietary Android user space

…and ads APIs. Your "sandboxed" Play would send that data to the mothership and return with ads. https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Implementation-Status https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/blob/32bc8954ff872d0e1a05d...

comment by ForHackernews · 2026-10-20 · in MicroG: Free-libre re-implementation of Google's proprietary Android user space

People are way ahead of you. https://github.com/microg/GmsCore

comment by monocasa · 2026-10-19 · in Android apps running native on macOS

…only miss Google Wallet. microG folks are working on Play Integrity, but it’s an ongoing battle: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/2967

comment by notpushkin · 2026-09-02 · in AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link

…at microG, however not fully reverse engineered obviously, and I wouldn’t hold my hopes up for now: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/361

comment by notpushkin · 2026-08-02 · in A big win for Android interoperability

…[4] https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/27068-grapheneos-security-p... [5] https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/blob/e19a9985204ec8329c1d9... [6] https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/blob/e19a9985204ec8329c1d9... [7] https://www.kuketz-blo

comment by bramhaag · 2026-03-02 · in /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem

Wallet app is still impossible to get working, but there’s been some development recently: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/361 Some other apps are often willing to accept my current setup (Lineage for microG [0], plus Magisk, if…

comment by notpushkin · 2026-02-17 · in GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple

…you sent first. And of course Google is the gatekeeper for anyone to be allowed to use it. 1. https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/2994

comment by dfajgljsldkjag · 2026-01-20 · in RCS for Business

…permissively licensed, I believe microG also has implementation of the notification protocol: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/blob/cb9be8f682d7649dae23b... It's Apache 2.

comment by cyberax · 2025-11-28 · in Molly: An Improved Signal App

…with microG, just as they do when communicating with the actual Google Play Services). Source: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki I add the official MicroG repo to my F-Droid using this QR code: https://microg.org/fdroid/repo/ Also, I…

comment by DarkFuture · 2025-09-29 · in F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree

…https://github.com/tenstorrent/tt-metal/issues?q=is%3Aissue%... $200 - $3,000 bounties 2. microG https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/2994 $10,000 bounty 3. Li Haoyi https://github.com/orgs/com-lihaoyi/discussions/6 multiple bounties…

comment by ayewo · 2025-09-17 · in Notion API importer, with Databases to Bases conversion bounty

> Android that work without Google Play, https://github.com/microg/GmsCore , so basically you cannot. It's monopoly in daylight.

comment by dvrj101 · 2025-09-16 · in Linux phones are more important now than ever

…microg requires an additional patch to work. Else you only get GPS. See note at the bottom here: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Installation

comment by RealStickman_ · 2025-07-25 · in Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build

…Android APIs [0], so Microsoft could've definitely done it if they saw enough money in it. [0] https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Implementation-Status

comment by franga2000 · 2024-05-10 · in Huawei breaks free from Google ecosystem with homegrown HarmonyOS

A lot of people running degoogled androids depend on the location service: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/2237

comment by dingensundso · 2024-03-16 · in Mozilla will be retiring the Mozilla Location Service

Is anyone here daily-driving microg and can share their experiences? https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Implementation-Status does not exactly inspire confidence.

comment by puzzlingcaptcha · 2024-02-06 · in LineageOS is currently installed on 1.5M Android devices

microG itself connects directly to Google: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Google-Network-Connec... No shit, of course they do. >In general, we obviously try to minimize the connections to Google, but some services strictly rely on…

comment by Qwertious · 2023-12-21 · in A closer look at e/OS: Murena's privacy-first 'deGoogled' Android alternative

…://gitlab.e.foundation/e/devices/android_device_fairpho... microG itself connects directly to Google: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Google-Network-Connec... and /e/OS default enables those connections:…

comment by SubzeroCarnage · 2023-12-21 · in A closer look at e/OS: Murena's privacy-first 'deGoogled' Android alternative

…app. MicroG which is used to access your account is also open-source. https://github.com/ReVanced https://github.com/microg/GmsCore

comment by kaanyalova · 2023-12-01 · in Firefox for Android is adding support for 400 add-ons

…because it installs and enables microG by default which immediately connects directly to Google: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Google-Network-Connec... And /e/OS is still 224 days behind Chromium updates:…

comment by SubzeroCarnage · 2023-07-24 · in Changing the Android captive portal page (2020)

…servers. MicroG avoids sending sensitive HW and user data though, more can be read in this thread: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/1508 [1] https://doc.e.foundation/support-topics/micro-g [2] https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/blob/…

comment by JensenKarlsson · 2023-04-26 · in Smartphones with Qualcomm chip secretly send personal data to Qualcomm

…partially implemented and/or has bugs. I don't see how it's shallow to consider that as janky. [1] https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Implementation-Status

comment by Tijdreiziger · 2022-10-12 · in An unexpected revival of Firefox OS

…best bet is to install LineageOS(formerly cyanogenmod) and microG if you can accept the current https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Implementation-Status

comment by zen_1 · 2022-08-24 · in Class action against Oracle’s worldwide surveillance machine

…Google Play Services at this time. Here's the feature request for Android Auto support on microG: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/897

comment by commoner · 2022-08-10 · in Review of /e/ – Android-based alternative for mobile phones

This should be a show-stopper for anyone considering microg. https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/1567 Security is an afterthought for most Android distributions and most software built around them. I went from years of self building…

comment by h4waii · 2022-03-01 · in F-Droid – alternative to Google Play store

…implemented by GMS itself. [1] https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/android.html#microg... [2] https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/1567

comment by jdiez17 · 2022-02-01 · in Google Maps now requires WiFi scanning to use navigation

…was my thinking. I took a look at microG and couldn't see any reference to it on the status page: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Implementation-Status The options to make a true opensource assistant that would work in the same…

comment by robmsmt · 2022-01-02 · in Dicio: Free and open source voice assistant for Android

…---- Edit: so I did look into this, and it looks like MicroG just doesn't support WebAuthn at all: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/849 , https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=997538 So if anything, that gives me a…

comment by danShumway · 2021-08-24 · in How to bypass Sprint/T-Mobile 2FA in under 5 minutes

Details would be very helpful. Any incompatibilities with microG can be reported to its GitHub repo: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues

comment by commoner · 2021-08-07 · in CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative

…and map rendering. microG also keeps Google's in-app ads disabled. Implementation status: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Implementation-Status

comment by commoner · 2021-08-06 · in CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative

…but I'll duplicate here: The microG creator goes into more detail about signature spoofing at https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/1467#issuecomment-8... The concerns usually raised against that are due to the "default" patch included…

comment by cdesai · 2021-08-06 · in CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative

…to getting the notification issues fixed. We've sent some patches to microG to address them at https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/pull/1483 I'm running it on my device since a few weeks now and it has been quite reliable so far.

comment by cdesai · 2021-08-06 · in CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative

The microG creator goes into more detail about signature spoofing at https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/1467#issuecomment-8... The concerns usually raised against that are due to the "default" patch included in their repository,…

comment by cdesai · 2021-08-06 · in CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative

…display in order to block ads. [1]: https://vancedapp.com [2]: https://sponsor.ajay.app [3]: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/79

comment by brbsix · 2021-03-20 · in Ask HN: Why there are so many ads on YouTube?

…some of these features, and does not support Google's APIs for ads or analytics. https://microg.org https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Implementation-Status LineageOS does not support the mechanism (signature spoofing) that enables…

comment by commoner · 2021-01-05 · in Termux no longer updated on Google Play

…a question on github some time ago on how to integrate our speech recognition services to microg https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/1164 . No response from developers at all. Its hard to take off the open source project this way.

comment by nshm · 2020-11-30 · in A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s Android user space

…salaried developers. These two developers have a rather scary number of issues to address: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues Their status page seems to have some room to grow: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Implementation-Sta…

comment by ChrisMarshallNY · 2020-11-30 · in A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s Android user space

The status page does not look particularly reassuring https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Implementation-Status

comment by puzzlingcaptcha · 2020-11-30 · in A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s Android user space

Quoting from https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki : > This is alpha-grade software and not yet ready for production use. Do not use if you don't know what you're doing. Personally I'd also be concerned that Google's bot detection code…

comment by gst · 2020-11-30 · in A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s Android user space

…use the GCM registration, but push notifications just dont work, try this [0], worked for me [0] https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/226#issuecomment-26...

comment by waldfee · 2020-11-30 · in LineageOS with F-Droid and no Google Apps

…use MicroG, which is a FOSS reimplementation of the Google Play Services client. https://microg.org https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore Currently, the easiest way to use MicroG is through CalyxOS, a distribution of…

comment by commoner · 2020-07-26 · in Google reportedly peeks into Android data to gain edge over third-party apps

…a simple as saying 'you can replace it' and that's the last you'll have to think about it. [0] https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/wiki

comment by no_wizard · 2020-06-30 · in System Hardening in Android 11

https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/wiki... claims to support this without blobs. I haven't tested it myself, but some friends seem to have no problems with their de-googled Androids.

comment by namibj · 2020-06-19 · in Apple gave me the Hey treatment back in 2014

https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/issu...

comment by 2Ccltvcm · 2019-05-10 · in Google Fights Back

Looks like it doesn't really have much implemented and what is implemented is likely buggy or limited https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/wiki...

comment by zamadatix · 2019-02-04 · in Bye, Bye, Google

…so microG offers its own ROM called 'LineageOS for microG.' Jesus - this is what the patch does: https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/blob... So this allows other applications to appear in the com.google namespace? This…

comment by voltagex_ · 2018-04-30 · in Using only open-source software on Android

…OS, that had control over my location, and MicroG still tracks my location when Location is off( https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/wiki... ). While none of this conclusively points to Google Play Services tracking me…

comment by kop316 · 2018-04-23 · in The Many Ways Google Harvests Data

…OS, that had control over my location, and MicroG still tracks my location when Location is off( https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/wiki... ). While none of this conclusively points to Google Play Services tracking me…

comment by kop316 · 2018-04-12 · in Facebook is in the privacy spotlight but should Google be next

Maybe, since this hits Google APIs directly: https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/blob... But then, there's no TOS at this URL, and there's no point in taking this repo down, it would only make Google look bad and give…

comment by Aissen · 2017-11-03 · in LineageOS for microG – Access Google services without closed software